The idiosyncrasies of British currency make calculations, carried out mechanically, slow and difficult, and they hold up the other high-speed machines in a modern office.
He hopes that new high-speed DNA sequencing machines will help fix that issue.
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On the other hand, the law's significance is likely to diminish, as computer-buyers demand more than just speed from their machines and chip designers tailor their wares accordingly.
One challenge for all the new sequencing companies will be that Illumina and Life Technologies, the market leaders, have been able to increase the speed of their machines very quickly without fundamental changes in technology.
But rather than using nets and chloroform, their tools are the high-speed gene-sequencing machines developed for the Human Genome Project.
Inside lies a world of polished granite, speed-lifts, sophisticated machines and attentive nurses.
In a second phase of the project, a membership card holding biometric details will allow travelers to speed through immigration using special machines.
Initially Venter will do the sequencing on existing machines optimized for speed, but he has a bigger goal in mind: to hasten the arrival of a new generation of ultrafast sequencers that can read the genome far faster, at far lower cost.
Royal Mail started to use the alphanumeric codes when electronic sorting machines were introduced to speed up the service in the 1950s.
Up to 12 colors of bright merino wool yarn are pulled from cones dangling from the ceiling into the teal-colored machines' high-speed knitting needles.
Back then, it was the telephone, high-speed rotary presses, stereotyping, typesetting machines, color presses, rotogravure and the electric-telegraphic typewriter.
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So cargoes of cars and car parts, tractors, cookers and washing machines still travel at about the speed of a running man.
He describes a server upgrade on one of Sun's own data centers last June that turned 22 outmoded servers into 11 modern machines, whose processors run at a slower speed but are capable of far more simultaneous tasks.
Because nobody knows what the mass of a Higgs boson might be, the particle must be hunted indirectly, typically in giant machines that propel particles to near-light speed, then smash them together and generate an array of other subatomic particles.
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He cited the switch from hand-pulled espresso machines to the automatic variety, which helped to speed up service but diminished the spectacle of coffee-making.
It is widely agreed that the best way to do this is to bring in more robots, more machines and a greater degree of automation to help speed up production, and workers in the car industry have had to become much more flexible in their attitudes to work.
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With such machines networked, Alzheimer's disease researchers hope to speed work toward a cure, using the San Diego Supercomputer Center and its affiliates.
These machines have 22 keys and are capable of typing at the speed of speech, around 180 words per minute, or three words every second.
The company could charge a bunch for its machines, and customers didn't mind because they got even more speed and efficiency in their automation.
The long-awaited era of single-molecule DNA sequencing will begin in earnest with new machines from companies like Pacific Biosciences, and with a bit of luck this will improve the speed at which we can recognise unknown bugs.
To speed things along, banks and even shops will probably receive lots of euros in advance, so that cash machines and tills can spout the new currency exclusively from January 1st 2002.
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