Students at dozens of colleges, such as Syracuse, American University and Marist College, can check online whether a vacant machine is waiting downstairs and how much time remains on each machine's cycle.
Instead of backing up data to an external hard drive, a chore as popular in our home as taking out the trash, we staked out disk space on each machine and opened it to the other computers on the home front.
While IGT may have fallen behind in coming up with flashy new games, the company manages to keep its customers in line by dominating the back room with accounting software that keeps a real-time record of the money that's being won and lost on each slot machine.
They placed a sample of each in a machine that shook them about, and focused a laser beam on each sample.
There is a useless machine battling another useless machine, turning each other on and off, over and over.
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The first is a matrix of miniscule dots on the page, which will make each photographed page more easily machine-readable.
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On each occasion, Mr Cook kept Apple's money-making machine ticking over smoothly.
If Dell is going to compete on price, it's hard to see how it can wring much profit out of each machine.
With Edge Inspect, you load an app onto each device you want to test which allows your desktop machine to push the content on its screen to those devices.
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As icing on the cake, hardware companies don't have to pay a third party for each Linux-based machine they sell.
In each case we independently installed the firewall on an otherwise unprotected Quantex QP6 350 M2X, a Pentium II-350 machine equipped with 64MB of RAM and running Windows 98 SE.
In my tests on both machines, the actual installation took about two hours, but a full workday or more was spent tweaking each machine, and getting updates to Windows 8 and its built-in apps.
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