If we are looking at a perfect watch we are looking at the perfect machine for telling time.

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To this date we are unable to build a machine that can do the simplest human task: Converse.

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It's not the audience, " she says.. "When it comes to the coveted spots of who are we going to push in the star machine, those that have the money and the means to do so rarely are going to look at a black artist and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to get behind that.

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"We are making a partnership between human judgment and machine capability, " Taylor says.

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And I wish that we could just have a time machine and sort of vortex ourselves from place to place, but we are definitely going to cover the ground and get to Texas.

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"In the ultimate sense, we are looking for something that is autonomous like a biological machine, " Gracias says.

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The mobile world is still at early stages of expansion, and we are on our way as well to adding a trillion connected machine-to-machine devices.

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Though nobody used this analogy, I understand the government argument to be: just as we are not going to recover by asking Siemens to make mops and buckets, we are also not going to recover by selling high-end machine tools to pensioners in Potsdam.

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We are holding to a pattern of no installations on a individual local machine to experience our version of multitasking and a integrated social management layer.

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We are not going to start, with a calculator and an adding machine, tracking down what people received from other sources, other funds, other help from relatives, savings.

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Here we are going to set up the DNS and HTTP settings on a FreeBSD machine.

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Perhaps we are confused by the morality of war or the inner workings of the military machine.

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