The machine quack makes his Rube Goldberg devices out of odds and ends of metals, wires, and radio parts.

And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

IBM has a machine that can understand spoken words and talk back.

The body is a heat machine, and 20 to 25 guests can easily double your cooling load.

A BTU is a unit of heat, and the BTU rating of a conditioner refers to how much heat your machine can pump out of your house in an hour.

A man can be an effective fighting machine throughout the incubation period of most infectious diseases.

But as long as you can have treatment from my machine you have nothing to worry about.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

that any procedure which could " naturally " be called effective, can in fact be realized by a ( simple ) machine.

Gurevich: "... Turing's informal argument in favor of his thesis justifies a stronger thesis: every algorithm can be simulated by a Turing machine ... according to Savage, an algorithm is a computational process defined by a Turing machine ".

There is a wide variety of representations possible and one can express a given Turing machine program as a sequence of machine tables ( see more at finite state machine, state transition table and control table ), as flowcharts ( see more at state diagram ), or as a form of rudimentary machine code or assembly code called " sets of quadruples " ( see more at Turing machine ).

Representations of algorithms can be classed into three accepted levels of Turing machine description:

He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of " algorithm " and " computation " with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.

Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

This can be mitigated somewhat by insistence on using CNAME records indicating service rather than actual machine names to refer to the service, but there is no way of guaranteeing that users will follow such a convention.

All of these can be done manually or can be automated into a machine.

Some of this knowledge is in the form of facts that can be explicitly represented, but some knowledge is unconscious and closely tied to the human body: for example, the machine may need to understand how an ocean makes one feel to accurately translate a specific metaphor in the text.

This extreme growth can be exploited to show that f, which is obviously computable on a machine with infinite memory such as a Turing machine and so is a computable function, grows faster than any primitive recursive function and is therefore not primitive recursive.

The ULA had an issue similar to those experienced by other socketed CPU's ; Over time, the thermal heating and cooling could cause the ULA to rise slightly out of it's socket just enough to cause the machine to start exhibiting ' hanging ' or other startup-failure issues, such as a continuous ' startup beep '.

While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.

Typically, experts are relied on for opinions on severity of injury, degree of insanity, cause of failure in a machine or other device, loss of earnings, care costs, and the like.

The biggest single cause of casualties in World War I was actually artillery, but combined with wire entanglements, machine guns earned a fearsome reputation.

Microprograms are carefully designed and optimized for the fastest possible execution, since a slow microprogram would yield a slow machine instruction which would in turn cause all programs using that instruction to be slow.

Using a marginal register as the destination of an operation will cause the machine to automatically increase rL to include that register.

If this disc was removed from the machine and put on a similar machine provided with a contact point, the embossed record would cause the signals to be repeated into another wire.

If the roving was not a consistent size, then this step could cause a break in the yarn, or could jam the machine.

Vending machine proponents believe that obesity is a complex issue and soft drinks are not the only cause.

ESWL involves the use of a lithotriptor machine to deliver externally applied, focused, high-intensity pulses of ultrasonic energy to cause fragmentation of a stone over a period of around 30 – 60 minutes.

Gregory explains to his wife that if he describes anything into his dictation machine, he can cause that thing to suddenly appear in his study.

*: On 17 May 2012 Albanian President, Bamir Topi awarded Rivera the " Medal of Gratitude " with the citation: " With profound gratitude and esteem, personality and prominent publicist, expensive friend of the Albanians, who made his cause the American public consciousness, and beyond, monstrous crime was making the Serb military machine, in 1999, against the Kosovo Albanian civilian population, thus revealing it as ethnic cleansing and genocide ".

He created single-handedly in the Irish Party the first modern disciplined political party machine with its whip, holding together all strands of Irish nationalism and harnessing Irish-America into the Irish cause.

These early extractors were often dangerous to use, since unevenly distributed loads would cause the machine to shake violently.

The exact interpretation depends upon the use ; while the term often refers only to machine code files, in the context of protection against computer viruses all files which cause potentially hazardous instruction execution, including scripts, are conveniently lumped together.

In addition, his theories thought all humanity was selfish and evil, which added towards the cause for Shang Yang becoming prime minister of the Qin under the rule of Duke Xiao of Qin and gradually transforming the state into a vigorously regulated machine, the sole purpose of which was the elimination of all rivals.

Due to a flaw in the Coupé's design, resetting the machine while a disk was left in a drive would be liable to cause data corruption on that disk.

* Mismatch of machine feed and tap feed may cause the tap to break in tension or compression.

The object of the game is to cause all processes of the opposing program ( s ) to terminate ( which happens if it executes a special instruction ), leaving the victorious program in sole possession of the machine.

While a lot of machine gun rounds and a fair amount of luck were needed to cause critical damage, a single cannon shell could instantly sever essential structural elements, penetrate armour or open up a fuel tank beyond what self sealing compounds could handle, even from a fairly long range.

This significantly boosts performance, but can cause problems when moving virtual machine guests between hardware hosts using different instruction-sets ( such as found in 64-bit Intel and AMD CPUs ), or between hardware hosts with a differing number of CPUs.

This deletes the contents of the partition table, and may cause the machine to hang.

Although they journeyed westerly as far as Germantown, beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine shop, and along the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and northward to Brooklyn, below Point Peter, he could see the church spire wherever he looked back.

In the grinding machine field, expansion went far from universal grinders alone and took in cylindrical grinders, surface grinders, and a wide variety of special and semi-special models.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

When machine translation ( also known as mechanical translation ) failed to yield accurate translations right away, automated processing of human languages was recognized as far more complex than had originally been assumed.

Although this was far from the principal driver for the Dragon's demise, it was nevertheless a factor, and had Dragon adopted the established Delta system, the machine may well have had a greater following and a longer life.

“ This doctrine is rooted in Aristotle's conception of the soul, and has antecedents in Hobbes's conception of the mind as a ‘ calculating machine ’, but it has become fully articulated ( and popularly endorsed ) only in the last third of the 20th century .” In so far as it mediates stimulus and response, a mental function is analogous to a program that processes input / output in automata theory.

The friction brake was adjusted according to a rower's weight to give an accurate appraisal of boat-moving ability ( drag on a boat is proportional to weight ). Inferior copies of Harrison's machine were produced in several countries utilising a smaller flywheel and leather straps-unfortunately the leather straps were sensitive to humidity, and the relatively large braking area made results far less accurate than Harrison's machine.

The amount paid for the progressive jackpot is usually far higher than any single slot machine could pay on its own.

Alvin's first attempt fails: after experiencing difficulty starting the old mower's motor, he doesn't get far before the machine finally breathes its last, and he is forced to flag down a passing bus.

For instance, the Abwehr ( the German military intelligence service ) used a four-rotor machine without a plugboard, and Naval Enigma used different key management from that of the Army or Air Force, making its traffic far more difficult to cryptanalyse.

: The following is a summary of information so far received on German attempts to break into the British Typex machine, based on P / W interrogations carried out during and subsequent to the war.

As far as computer security is concerned, reasoning about the security properties of a computer system requires being able to make sound assumptions about what it can, and more importantly, cannot do ; however, barring any reason to believe otherwise, a computer is able to do everything that a general Von Neumann machine can.

Due to technical delays, DAT was not launched until 1989, and by then the U. S. dollar had fallen so far in relation to the yen that the introductory DAT machine Sony had intended to market for about $ 400 in the late 1980s now had to retail for $ 800 or even $ 1000 to break even, putting it out of reach for most users.

The last attempt so far was the " machine or transformation " test, but the U. S. Supreme Court decided in 2010 that it is merely an indication at best.

The " business machine " that management had originally wanted, now forming as the CDC 3000 series, pushed them about as far as they could go.

Her mastery is unparalleled when it comes to the seduction of certain powerful individuals, but popular criticism supports the notion that " as far as Cleopatra is concerned, the main thrust of the play's action might be described as a machine especially devised to bend her to the Roman will ... and no doubt Roman order is sovereign at the end of the play.

The machine is able to take Slade and Holly back far enough in time to witness a crime as it happens and discover who committed it.

Of all the 16-bit home computers, it was the one to gain the greatest success as a games machine due to its graphic and sound subsystems, which were widely considered to be far ahead of their time.

(" Popcorn Machine " is a reference to an actual popcorn machine in the old Los Angeles Sports Arena, which was near the basket, but far from the court.

Thus, if the player went far out of play, he was in the " popcorn machine.

A low-cost CPU built with multiprocessing in mind could allow the speed of a machine to be increased by adding more CPUs, potentially far more cheaply than by using a single faster CPU design.

He went on to criticise many aspects of contemporary American society, including the police, whom he felt " are little more than the agents of a corrupt political machine ... whom the collection of revenue and the terrorization of opposition is of far greater importance than the suppression of crime.

The machine had undergone changes in many of its parts, including more precise pistons, creating far less resistance.