This is not to say that the consoles are necessarily just essentially big empty metal boxes purely for show: they probably contain computers (or perhaps the rear of the consoles are actually shelves or storage cabinets for the controllers in front?) But there's a lot of ways to arrange computers and screens (or even shelves) today that don't replicate such a specific look.
Compact computers: The Atom processor (on top of the penny) and a controller hub (in front of the quarter) will appear in pocket-sized computers by summer.
One member of the team holds the belay rope, and another stands guard by a large red emergency stop button, while the robot controller sits in front of a large computer screen.
For almost 15 years, the United Nations has controlled Somalia's airspace from a little office in Nairobi, Kenya, where an international staff of air traffic controllers sit quietly in front of computers to make sure the scores of commercial jets that crisscross Somalia each day — usually on their way to somewhere else — do not crash into one another.
According to the laboratory test, the LMI controller is robust enough in front of perturbation induced on the second pendulum.
The Company's BIG-IP application delivery controllers (ADCs) is positioned in front of Web and application servers, balancing traffic and performing compute-intensive functions, such as encrypting and un-encrypting transmissions, screening traffic for security threats, maintaining open connections with servers, speeding the flow of traffic, managing access to applications and data.
You get up in the morning, take care of the basics, grab the controller, and begin a marathon in front of the monitor.
You get up in the morning, take care of the basics, grab the controller and begin a marathon in front of the monitor.
When taking over a control position, controllers touch and rearrange the strips in front of them.
