This was particularly important so that these early multimillion-dollar machines would not be idle during slow I/O operations.
Most of the thousand or so operational satellites in orbit are multi-million-dollar machines that provide major industries with scientific research, global positioning or military espionage.
[A21.] Even as the Transportation Department races to install million-dollar machines in airports to screen checked baggage, questions remain about their use and efficiency.
A22 Luggage Machines Barely Used While the Transportation Department races to install million-dollar machines in airports to screen checked baggage, most of the devices are not operated near capacity, two Congressmen complained.
Even as the Transportation Department races to install million-dollar machines in airports to screen checked baggage, most of the devices are operated less than two hours a day, and some hardly screen any bags at all, two congressmen said today.
The company isn't spending money on multimillion-dollar machines to build cars; it's using highly skilled workers who cost at most a few hundred dollars a month -- whose yearly pay, in other words, is less than the monthly pay of new hires in Detroit.
Essentially, the company buys those multi-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars machines so you don't have to, promising a much better print quality than you'll get on your desktop MakerBot.
MIT's Fab Lab has ten million-dollar machines which between them can make almost anything.
Orem says that's not necessarily true - surgery and chemotherapy, for example, don't require million-dollar machines.
These half-million dollar machines are not for consumer use: It is the telcos and Internet backbone providers like Sprint FONN) and Qwest (QWST) that use these devices.
Teradata, a division of NCR in Dayton, Ohio, made the multimillion-dollar machines running the world's biggest data warehouses, for customers like Wal-Mart, Bank of America and Verizon Wireless.
