Yet Fiat's recovery owes much to financial, not mechanical engineering.
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The introduction sums up not just mechanical rules, but an attitude towards clear writing that we hold dear.
An airline official said it was not a mechanical problem, but a computer error on the electric brake system controls.
"I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I saw a way to increase output of the machine by about 50%, " he says.
"There was not a mechanical elephant anywhere in this picture, " Murray confirmed.
This future value is then adjusted (no, not in any mechanical way, each individual investor is deciding to buy, not buy or sell, not sell, based on their own views of these things, the market reflects the consensus of all such views) by the likelihood of those targets of beliefs beingg reached.
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Not disturbing it is the quantum-mechanical equivalent of not really looking.
Flash memory does not have the mechanical limitations of hard drives, so an SSD has better speed, noise, and power consumption.
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It said it was able to move this way because the driver had not fitted a mechanical latch to prevent it from moving.
Monday's incident is not the first mechanical problem for the 787 series, which was delivered to airlines starting in 2011 after years of manufacturing delays and cost overruns.
Requiring more than a thousand moving parts, Vaucanson's duck was not only a mechanical marvel, but also begged some very Enlightenment-era intellectual questions: Was there anything more to life than mechanics and plumbing?
Sensors include visible spectrum cameras, 3D laser scanners and a spectrometer analysis (just to name a few) that creates an accurate analysis of waste which has not been possible with mechanical technology or human labor before.
That suggests that, even had Babbage succeeded, a Victorian computer revolution based on mechanical technology would not necessarily have followed.
Mathematicians develop a powerful attachment to elegance and depth, which are in tension with, if not directly opposed to, mechanical calculation.
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Some safety experts are concerned, but not alarmed, about the mechanical setbacks with the Dreamliner since its delivery to airlines beginning in 2011, following years of manufacturing delays and cost overruns.
Some of the robots dreamed up by Fudd (who, not entirely coincidentally, is studying mechanical engineering and architecture at MIT) are anything but kiddie projects.
The iWatch, if it even exists, will not be a quartz movement nor a mechanical one.
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"The mechanical process of checking things was not as sophisticated as it should have been, " she told the Times.
But, strangely, because software is really a form of idea rather than mechanical function, the patented software is not strictly limited to the original hardware implementation it was conceived for.
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It's also unclear why RIM bothered using fancy piezoelectric switches rather than simple mechanical ones, because they're not doing anything with the technology other than letting you click -- when you turn off the phone, the switches "harden" and prevent you from pressing the screen, but there's no option to keep that effect going when the device is on.
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In modern times, we mistakenly use the the word in a very limited sense to refer to electronic, digital, or mechanical tools because our thinking about technology is not very innovative.
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To be fair, these are complicated mechanical devices, forced to process physical objects, not just data.
Even for mechanical engineers, the preference is for design and not manufacturing.
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It is striking that participants do not view literacy classes or training courses as a set of mechanical skills or information that must be learned, but rather as a process of empowerment made possible by the exchange between participants, and between the self and the written word.
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During the seven years the incidents occurred, in cases where de Souza did not prescribe the drugs herself, she ordered other doctors to change mechanical ventilation devices, according to authorities.
The result is a seasonal strategy that allows whatever is going on at the time, primarily whether the market remains in rally mode or not, to influence the entries and exits, while maintaining the mechanical aspect that avoids usually wrong emotional input.
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Mr. KAMRIN HAIDER (Mechanical Engineer): (Through Translator) We are not concerned either with Obama or Bush.
More complicated or better decorated mechanical movements are available in many other watches, but certainly not all.
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The Department of Defense does not have a submersible that can reach 5, 000 feet with the mechanical arm power to do the types of things that BP and other oil companies buy equipment to do.
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