It is the wraparound presence, not the specific evils, of the machine that oppresses us.

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The REX allows your machine to accomplish a specific set of eye-tracking gestures, including scrolling, zooming and selecting items.

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This program is then fed into a second piece of software called a compiler, which translates it into a sequence of machine instructions for a specific kind of microprocessor, such as Intel's x86 family, which can then run the original program.

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Unless you are doing a specific course with specific requirements, you may find, gasp, that one machine lasts you three or four years.

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During radiation therapy, you're positioned on a table and a large machine moves around you, directing radiation beams to specific areas of your body in order to target your cancer.

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Nano bar codes are the molecular versions of traditional bar codes--metal nano-particles that have specific, recognizable chemical fingerprints that can be read by a machine, perhaps a UV lamp or optical microscope.

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It's possible, we guess, though such a tablet would be counter to the arguments made at the iPad launch where Jobs and Co praised the device for being purpose-built to excel at specific tasks -- TechCrunch's device sounds like a general purpose machine.

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The first small machine most of us knew was here to protect us from a specific kind of accident.

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There doesn't appear to be a way to change this, though you can change how Chrome behaves when the machine starts up: it can pick up where you left off, open specific sites or just start fresh.

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