LIKE slide-rules,steam engines and carbon paper, the telex machine, once ubiquitous andindispensable, has vanished from sight.

就像计算尺、蒸汽机和复写纸，曾经无处不见的、不可或缺的电传机已经从我们的视野里消失了。

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When you add a List from the slide-out palette to a Workplace application for example, the portlet is automatically configured according to the rules of the Workplace application and is ready to use.

当从滑动控制板向Workplace应用程序添加List时，会根据Workplace应用程序中的规则自动配置portlet，然后就可以使用该portlet。

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Its own engineers had taken out the slide rules, and they were deeply skeptical of the mission. (Laughter.)

(笑声)该局的工程师们已将计算尺收了起来，他们对这一使命表示十分怀疑。

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Whereas analog measurement--in the form of slide rules, micrometers and electronic meters--increasingly hit a wall because of the limitation of human beings to capture the result, digital could just keep on getting more and more accurate.

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And it was clear that the visitors were keen to arrest their slide by any means possible - stretching the rules of engagement at times as they clattered into challenges.

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