It is no cause for grief that the days when Europe's motor was driven sweetly by a Franco-German machine, tuned and tanked-up in Brussels, are over.
He and his 85 technicians and supervisors have to concentrate on having all those voting machines tuned up, adorned with the proper ballots, and delivered to more than 1,300 polling sites throughout the city for the general election on Nov. 2.
So far the best thing engineers have done is create FPGA-based machines tuned to perform a single task.
In 2006-7, whinstalledlled at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., the truck pulsated with hidden LEDs while playing a soundtrack of slot machine tunes and Cahuilla songs.
"We know there's a sleeping giant of a mass audience that bought The Three Tenors and the Benedictine monks," Danny Goldberg, the chief executive of Mercury Records, told Billboard magazine back in 1997, as the Bocelli machine was tuning up.
Most agree that the individual sound of a handmade piano, as opposed to one made by machine and tuned by computer, is one of its glories.
But outside of the leader's office, the PC machine was tuned and primed and ready to go.
But with the Pacers comfortably in first place earlier this year, it seemed Vogel had the machine finely tuned with each part in it's right place.
His first letter accuses Newton (and therefore Clarke) of making an imperfect machine that requires tuning to keep it running, like a watch that requires winding; but this is unfitting a perfect God.
