Watching the new series unfold, millions of spectators travel through the ages, their minds turned time machines, recalling the excitement and the anguish of previous episodes.
If wormholes exist, they could be adapted to make time machines that send you into the future if you traverse them in one direction, but into the past if you go in the other direction.
Up until the Chromebook Pixel arrived, Google had pushed its notebooks as cheap, first-time or secondary machines.
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"I feel we are trying our hardest to promote values in our children and yet at the same time the vending machines are actually promoting unhealthy eating, " he added.
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It is a sign of maturity when companies start to understand, as the banking industry did over time with ATM machines, that they should charge less for using services that cost less to provide.
Simonyi's work must reverse a struggle that has bedeviled computers since their inception just over half a century ago: the fact that even the sharpest programmers must spend much of their time acting like machines.
In 1977, aged 15, he dropped out of school to work full-time on the four sewing machines he had bought with his savings. (He still speaks only Arabic.) By the time Benetton came to Syria to scout for a franchisee in the mid-1990s, Mr Samha owned a factory exporting clothes to Europe.
After being kept alive on machines for some time, the suspect died Thursday evening, according to Walker.
In their zeal to rewrite the rules of computing for first-time users, OLPC shipped machines with a cumbersome operating system.
In Horry County, which includes Myrtle Beach, election workers were unable to get about 80 percent of the touch-screen machines running on time.
My version of your weight to strength is how many calories can I burn in a given 10, 20, or 30 minute time period on my exercise machines.
One election supervisor said that, given the time needed to purchase new machines and train personnel, the earliest the state may be able to replace its touch-screen machines is 2010.
The term refers to a set of technologies that will connect the real and digital worlds by embedding sensors in everyday objects and establishing real-time communications between objects and machines.
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"We also anticipate it will take many months for the new coins to reach significant circulation levels, giving extra time to adapt or replace machines and substantially reduce costs, " he said.
The county didn't have enough time to purchase optical scan machines for each polling place, which would have helped to detect errors on the spot, giving voters a chance to correct them.
But investors should be wary of this technology firm--the profit it makes from extra machines churning out Time Warner's movies won't last forever, and that won't be enough to revive is flagging stock.
The only video recorders at the time were huge Ampex reel-to-reel machines used by television stations to rebroadcast live shows in later time zones.
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But now, in a time of fiscal constraints, these machines are getting the loving care they deserve.
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If that sounds a bit arty, it is: Mr Schmitt is a former art student from Germany who used to cadge time on factory lathes and milling machines to make mechanised sculptures.
His work in this area would outline many of the fundamental principles required for digital communications, especially in regard to required sample rates and bandwidth limitations, and build upon previous ideas, like Time Division Multiplexing and early facsimile machines.
Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Science was being stunted at the time by the limitations of mechanical adding machines, said Mr Hauser.
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At that time I read his Age of Spiritual Machines, which was, I must say, an interesting and compelling book.
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In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.
As the clean-up and recovery consumes what stock is in place for earth movers, road graders and other heavy equipment for construction and infrastructure is put to work, the long lead-time required to build and deliver these machines may be a boon for companies like Caterpillar and its partners.
Instead, why not have customers call Dell every time they need to do something with the machines?
Their greatest challenge at the time was making more of the big yellow machines that customers were crying for.
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And this time they are looking to man, not machines, to provide it.
Early voting requires states to staff polling locations for weeks at a time and to maintain and secure the polling machines.
Lots of middle-class liberals came from as far away as California and New York to show first-time voters how to use punch-card machines, and to keep an eye open for any signs of voter intimidation.
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